Combined curtain-pole adjuster and support



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.1. ANDERSON.

Patented Oct. 25, |898.

COMBINED CURTAIN POLE ADJUSTER AND SUPPDBT.

(Application led Apr. 1 2, 1897.)

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JOHN ANDERSON, OF HARMARVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED CURTAIN-POLE ADJUSTER AND SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,185, dated October25, 1898.

Application filed April l2, 1897. Serial No. 631,724. (No model.) V

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Harrnarville, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in aCombined Curtain-Pole Adjuster and Support; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis speciiication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in acombined curtainpole adjuster and support.

The invention has for its object the provision of a means whereby thecurtain-pole may be supported and lowered down within reach of theoperator when it is desirous of removing the curtain, thereby overcomingthe disadvantage of standing upon a chair or ladder.

With the above objects in view the invention nally consists in the novelconstruction, combination,and arrangements of parts to be hereinaftermore specically described.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication and Whereinlike figures of reference indicate similar parts in the several viewsshown, in which- Figure 1 is an elevated front view of a window-framefitted with my improved device and showing the cu rtain-pole supportedthereby. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device removed from thewindow-frame. Fig. 3 is a front view of the device partly broken awayand drawn upon a larger scale. Fig. 4f is a side eleva-tion of the same,.partly shown in section. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 6is a front view of the top of the inner extension-piece, the lowerportion being broken away. Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view showing thepivoted stop at the lower end of the outer tube.

The invention consists in the sheet-metal tubes l, which are attached tothe windowframes by screws and which are formed from strips of metalhaving their sides turned over in a semicircular manner, as shown, andleaving an open space within their front and eX- tending their entirelength. Loosely fitted within the said tubes are the tubes 2,which areformed similar to the outer,tubes and have their openings of less widththan those of the outer tubes. Secured to the lower ends of the saidinner tubes are the screws or buttons 3, the object of which is toprovide a means of operating the said extension-tubes. Loosely ttedwithin the upper ends of the said extension tubes are the brackets 4,which have loosely pivoted to their lower ends, by the pins 5, the pawls6. The lower ends of the said pawls are broader than the width of theopenings of the inner tubes and are bent over at right angles and areadapted to enter the small openings 7 which are formed within the edgesof the said inner tubes and form a means of securing the brackets inplace. At the base of the said tubes and secured to either the outertube or the window-frame are the dogs 8, having the iianges 9 formedupon their lower ends and which are turned upward at right angles, so asto form a stop for the extension-tube and prevent the said tube fromcoming out. The said dogs are pivoted so that they may be turnedoutwardly by the small ianges 10, as shown by the dotted lines at theleft-hand side of the window-frame at Fig. l.

Should it be desired to lower the extensionpieces and brackets to eitherremove the curtain and pole or place the pole upon the brackets the dogsare turned to one side and the extension-pieces let down, which willbring the pole within reach of the operator, or if desired to furtherlower the pole the pawls upon the brackets may be pressed at their upperends by the fingers, so as to disengage them from the openings of theinner tube. They may then be caused to slide down the inner tube as faras desired.

Having thus fully shown and described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-L In a curtain-pole support,the combination with the outer tube having its edges bent inwardly, theinner tube provided with correspondingly-bent edges and formed with opposite notches, a thumb-screw passing through the inner tube and adaptedto engage with the outer tube for the purpose of holding the inner tubeadjustably in the outer tube, the bracket loosely fitting in said innertube, und the pztwl pivoted thereto adapted to engage with said notches,of the dof: pivoted to the outer tube near the lower end thereof,lluving :t ztnge adapted to extend under the lower end of said tube undprovided with t flange forming :L finger-hold, substantially as shownand described.

In testimony whereof I a'lix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN ANDERSON.

lVitnesses:

ALEX. A. PATTERSON, H. J. LEVIS.

